Weekend Work
 

The site will be offline for a period of time this Sunday afternoon to do some code and database changes. This is expected to start around 3pm (uk time). The work should not take more than an hour.

What will we notice after the changes?

Ponies!

Hehe, good enough for me.

No, there will definitely be no ponies, no ponies whatsoever.

*pushes against large, hairy, brown object shaped almost exactly like a pony*

Get back in there, you!!

i just hope [you] don't listen to all the suggestions to make the site faster...

these are the suggestions that break up the place all the time.. lol

We'll find out once they update it. :p

can we expect to see a vbpony system installed. lookin forward to the updates

Most of the changes are backend code and database updates (partly to just update very old code, and partly to make some features due later in the year possible) - there will be very little visible change on Sunday.

One effect that may become apparent is install count adjustments - the current system just adds one (or takes one) from an existing stored number (similar to how post counts work). Over time this means errors have crept in and some counts are no longer exactly correct. Every install is also kept as a record in a database and after the update, when you mark a mod as installed (or uninstalled) it will actually work out the correct count from the database - this will mean counts (esp for older mods) may change slightly as they get corrected.

So how is this going to work with future versions of vbulletin, is it going to put in latter versions? (replacing old code I mean)

@Paul M - How are you using 3.6.6? You are beta testing it?